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Akamai is betting that securing autonomous AI agents and LLM deployments is a distinct, quota-carrying market that enterprises will buy separately from traditional API security, and it is staffing a dedicated specialist sales team around it in Southeast Asian banking and telecom.
Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?
Do you love collaborating across teams to deliver customer success?
Join our API Security Sales Team!
Akamai is expanding its specialist sales organization to secure the next frontier of enterprise digital business: APIs and autonomous AI systems. Today, every modern application relies on APIs. Every enterprise deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) is introducing autonomous software agents into production.
Become an API Security Sales Specialist
As a Senior Sales Specialist, you will spearhead Akamai's go-to-market strategy. Across Southeast Asia for our advanced application security portfolio: Akamai API Security, Agent Security and Firewall for AI. As pursuit lead, along with sales, presales, and channel partners identify and close cybersecurity opportunities in banking, telecommunications, and digital accounts.
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About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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